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By the Grace of the Game: The Holo­caust, a Bas­ket­ball Lega­cy, and an Unprece­dent­ed Amer­i­can Dream
Dan Grun­feld
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Let’s Get Phys­i­cal: How Women Dis­cov­ered Exer­cise and Reshaped the World
Danielle Fried­man
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Nazi Bil­lion­aires: The Dark His­to­ry of Germany’s Wealth­i­est Dynasties
David De Jong
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Fic­tion
The But­ter­fly and the Axe
Omer Bar­tov
Essay

What Kind of a Name is Osnos?

Peter Osnos
August 30, 2021
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Irma Stern and the Racial Para­dox of South African Mod­ern Art: Audac­i­ties of Color
LaN­i­tra M. Berger
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Bab­ka, Boulou, & Blintzes: Jew­ish Choco­late Recipes from around the World
Michael Lev­en­thal
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War­saw Ghet­to Police: The Jew­ish Order Ser­vice dur­ing the Nazi Occupation
Katarzyna Person
Essay

Alexan­der Hamil­ton and His Jew­ish Witnesses

Andrew Por­wanch­er
August 16, 2021
Essay

Otto War­burg’s Jew­ish Identity

Sam Apple
August 16, 2021
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To Repair a Bro­ken World: The Life of Hen­ri­et­ta Szold, Founder of Hadassah
Dvora Hacohen
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The Pass­port as Home: Com­fort in Rootlessness
Andrei S. Markovits
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Beyond the Syn­a­gogue: Jew­ish Nos­tal­gia as Reli­gious Practice
Rachel B. Gross
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Cul­ture of Fra­grance: Jew­ish Per­fumers in the Twen­ti­eth Century

Tim­o­thy Schaffert
July 26, 2021
Jews and the Olympics
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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the Amer­i­can Dream 
Michael Shnayerson
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